Last week’s class was, for reasons that were made quite obvious, all about git. Just from the examples and small bit of experience we got with this tool in class, I can already tell that it will be extremely valuable for the remainder of the course, and my career as a computer scientist. Version control is a new topic to myself and going over the functionality of git made it fairly straight forward. It will take a little bit to get used to the commands to use git efficiently, but that goes without saying.
I actually think it would be a good idea to have CS students learn about git much earlier in their college careers and put it to practice in group coding assignments. This would provide students with a work environment for a project similar to the real world, long before they actually get there.
